If you’re looking for a dark summer vacation read, check out my latest book review in the Los Angeles Review of Books — “Too Close to Home: On Yun Ko-eun’s The Disaster Tourist.”

Here’s a little excerpt:

All the upheavals of 2020 perhaps make now the perfect time to read Yun Ko-eun’s latest novel, The Disaster Tourist. This slim work centers around Jungle, a Korean travel company that caters to people’s love of gawking at accidents. Jungle coldly quantifies natural catastrophes and human s...